Onda Latina Ohio open mic partners with OSU Spanish and Portuguese graduate students to create an evening of performance art and spoken word with a focus on gender, power, sexuality, and the Trumpocalypse. Open mic available to ALL, en el idioma que prefieran, regardless of identity markers, with consideration to the creation of a safer space for Latinx and allies.

When? Friday, December 2, 2016, 8-10 PM

Where? Columbus Wild Goose Creative, 2491 Summit St, Columbus, OH 43202

All ages welcome, but parental discretion is advised

Where can I get free pizza for bringing visibility to Latin American women around the world? Read more…

Where: 160 Hagerty Hall

When: November 2, 5-8

Help us give visibility to Latin American women on the web by translating Wikipedia articles (from Spanish and Portuguese) into English!

We have a list of 70+ important women in Latin America who have very poor (or non-existent) Wikipedia pages in English and we hope to give them more visibility on the web and, consequently, make them more well-known in the US context.
Plus, it’s a great opportunity to practice your language skills!

How it will work:
1. When you arrive, give us your lastname.# or other email account;
2. We will email you a Google Spreadsheet with the following information: Name of woman, Country, Field of work, Link with source article, Approximate number of words in source article, Link with target article for you to edit (or, if it’s N/A, you will create a brand new page for her!).
3. Once you choose which article you want to translate (based on your favorite Latin American country, area of interest, or–let’s be honest–number of words), add your name and lastname.# to that article and highlight it in yellow. If an article in the Google doc is highlighted in yellow it’s because it is in progress of being translated.
4. Log in to your Wikipedia account. (We will teach you how to do it, it’s very easy.)
5. Translate away! Don’t be too shy to ask for help or ask any questions; we want this to be a very collaborative event.
6. Once you’re done, highlight in green the article in the Google doc. If an article is highlighted in green it means that it’s all done!

***BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP***
There will be some laptops available for students who don’t have theirs, but not many.

Alice Bag is a singer/songwriter, musician, author, artist, educator and feminist. Alice was the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, one of the first punk bands to form during the first wave of punk rock in Los Angeles. The Bags are considered one of the key bands of the early Hollywood punk scene that centered around the Masque in 1977-78. In 1981, members of the Bags appeared as the Alice Bag Band in the seminal documentary on punk rock, The Decline of Western Civilization. 

Alice went on to perform in other groundbreaking bands, including Castration Squad, Cholita, and Las Tres. She has published two books, including the critically acclaimed memoir Violence Girl in 2011 and the 2015 self-published Pipe Bomb For the Soul, based on her teaching experiences in post-revolutionary 1980’s Nicaragua.

Alice’s influence on popular music is highlighted in the Smithsonian exhibit, American Sabor. Alice’s self-titled debut solo album will be released on June 24th, 2016 on Don Giovanni Records. Alice Bag features all original material written by Bag and includes performances by some of her favorite LA-based musicians.

http://rocknwomen.avidnoise.com/2016/06/17/a-big-announcement-issue-1/

In April, Onda Latina Ohio welcomed our featured presenter Brenda Hernandez, Chicago Latin music collector and cultural arts educator.  Programs Coordinator for Yollocalli Arts Reach, a youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, she spoke with us about the transformative sounds of disco and the disco-very of sexuality.  How do we encourage safety among women and girls at the same time that we overcome repression and celebrate pleasure?

To kick off Women’s History Month, Onda Latina Ohio welcomed our featured artist Isis Costa McElroy who performed a spoken-word piece titled “Reflections of Silêncio.” Incorporating Afro-Brazilian languages and spirit, Isis led us on an elegant spoken word journey through the dimensions of myth and place making.